Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card - OEM

Pros: Low price for a good well made sound card. Good fidelity and clean signal.

Cons: Does not come with nor works with ASIO drivers. Which is odd since this following statement is on the Creative website "Shipping with the Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ and selected Sound Blaster® Audigy® series sound cards is a rock-solid ASIO driver with low-latency performance down to <=2ms."

ASIO was the reason I bought this card.

Other Thoughts: Shipping with the Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ and selected Sound Blaster® Audigy® series sound cards is a rock-solid ASIO driver with low-latency performance down to <=2ms.

Pros: I like the digital synthesiser it comes with.

Cons: None really that I have found.

Other Thoughts: I got this at a local store.
I've had this thing well over a year and it's going good so far. I have Windows 7 64, I'm sure if there is drivers for me there is drivers for W7 32 and Vista 32/64. I recommend you download drivers from the website, if you just let Windows 7 install the generic drivers you don't get he synthesiser and volume control thingie. Unless it's changed now.

Pros: This is a great soundcard if you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)! It also has connections for the front-panel audio ports of any computer case!

Cons: None (unless you are running any flavor of Linux and cannot compile your own drivers).

Pros: works great great value

Cons: none

Pros: price and features

Cons: Does not work with Windows 7 64 bit. Buy it if you have XP but most recent Creative drivers as of 1/15/10 produce garbled sound

Pros: ...yet to be seen.

Cons: What is up with no driver disc? Is it that hard/expensive to make one? No. Now I have to wait for Creative's limping download server to send them to me...

Other Thoughts: Buy something else.

Pros: Works great! No problems on linux mce media director machine <using creatives linux drivers> although you could probably get away with just using alsa.

Cons: not much of a noticeable difference from the onboard realtek setup

Other Thoughts: No one officially supports linux. Though many companies provide linux drivers, creative included they will not officially support. This is for several reasons such as linux comes in a staggering array of flavors and if they officially supported linux they would have to provided tech support for all of those flavors requiring the most educated tech support agents in the universe.....

Pros: Got this elsewhere for a customer that wanted inexpensive X-Fi support. It does work with the OS's as stated, offers mediocre sound quality, is relatively cheap for what you get (see below).

Cons: It's basically a rebranded 24 Live! with software X-Fi emulation and nothing more. In point of fact, you can actually run a 24 Live! with the same software that has had the hardware recognition variables altered to allow it to run.

Other Thoughts: With this card you are not getting a real X-Fi, but a software dependent gimmick. Just be aware of that going in.

Frankly I think Creative has gotten both greedy and lazy and their product reputation has suffered greatly because of these recycled legacy SKU's.

Pros: Noticeably better sound quality than the onboard sound from my 680i.
Easy setup/install
Lots of driver options and customization
Works on Vista 64bit

Cons: The sound quality upgrade wasn't worth $50 to me. Its nice to have, but I don't see the massive clarity boost I was hearing all a bout with X-Fi cards. It is noticeable, but not "The best thing you've ever heard"

Other Thoughts: If you're looking for an X-Fi card (and you're running Windows), this is a good choice, if you aren't a hardcore sound enthusiast I wouldn't recommend going off your current sound card.

Pros: Decent card. Good value, good sound.

Cons: Will NOT allow installation of Dolby Digital Live Connect Pack from Creative. This is necessary if you want 5.1 Dolby Digital from your digital out connection into your sound system. Also, this card will not allow "What You Hear" recording from your computer.

Other Thoughts: I bought this card for our media computer to process sound from DVD's. On the Creative site, this card is not listed in the Dolby Digital Live Connect Pack recommends, but it also not listed in another section where cards that won't work with the digital pack are listed, either. I guess this Extreme Audio card ain't extreme enough. RMA'd.